Clinical Nurse Specialist / Non Medical Prescriber

The Cheshire and Mersey Perinatal Mental Health Service has grown at a significant rate following a successful bid for Long Term Plan funding, allowing us to support an increasing number of women, partners, and families within the perinatal period. In order to continue this expansion and ensure high-quality mental health assessments with a "think family approach" we are looking to recruit Clinical Nurse Specialists/Non Medical Prescribers to work be based within Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Halton.

We are seeking practitioners who are passionate about providing excellent care to women and families within the perinatal period. and seeking to reduce health inequalities. We are happy to accept applicants without the required non-medical prescribing training as long as they are willing to work towards, this would be offered as a Band 6-7 development role.

We are a supportive, friendly highly committed service who provide multidisciplinary specialised care to women in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health problems. We offer excellent training opportunities to our staff and robust supervision to support delivery of high quality care.

Main duties of the job

To plan and deliver nurse led clinics and interventions within a multidisciplinary and interagency framework, providing staff development and specialist assessment and review including medication reviews and prescribing to support patients.

To prescribe and monitor medication to patients under the care of the specialist perinatal mental health team, under the guidance and supervision of medical staff.

Support service development by responding to local needs and establish effective care pathways.

Facilitate training for GP's and other Primary Care staff and offer self as a resource to secondary services.

Provide ongoing guidance and supervision for staff within the team.

Establish performance monitoring systems for reporting purposes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.